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Hello. I am your friendly D&D mod for tonight, here to tell you that generally speaking, we prefer it when people say things and explain what they mean instead of darkly hinting at their possible meanings.

J: Alcoff on emotion, Vandana Shiva for how we interpret emotion into women's knowledge. Merchant if you really want to have fun!

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We need to decouple logical systems from being the only right or proper answer to a question/inquiry, and accept that "reasonable" thought is transitive, contextual, and embodies power relations within it. Illogical as a disparaging remark needs to be stopped; we need to move towards understanding and reclaiming logic, emotion, and others as acceptable and reasonable approaches in and of themselves and stop thinking of them as being antithetical. Such an approach also attacks the privilege inherent in proper, schooled, or learned thought by understanding context and self-determination as integral to any life and freeing reason from the academy.

Hello. I am your friendly D&D mod for tonight, here to tell you that generally speaking, we prefer it when people say things and explain what they mean instead of darkly hinting at their possible meanings.

It's like in an anime where they're talking about scientific principles and they start using phrases like "conservation of mass" and "laws of thermodynamics" in the same sentences as "the power of our friendship" and "the energy of our suffering".

We need to decouple logical systems from being the only right or proper answer to a question/inquiry, and accept that "reasonable" thought is transitive, contextual, and embodies power relations within it. Illogical as a disparaging remark needs to be stopped; we need to move towards understanding and reclaiming logic, emotion, and others as acceptable and reasonable approaches in and of themselves and stop thinking of them as being antithetical. Such an approach also attacks the privilege inherent in proper, schooled, or learned thought by understanding context and self-determination as integral to any life and freeing reason from the academy.

I guess my confusion is coming from the idea that i see logic and rationality primarily as tools for solving problems

I've never thought of emotion as a tool for solving a problem. it should definitely factor in to HOW you solve problems, since we're all human and we all feel things, and those should be taken into account. but I have trouble imagining approaching a problem, and then wielding emotion to hammer it out

We need to decouple logical systems from being the only right or proper answer to a question/inquiry, and accept that "reasonable" thought is transitive, contextual, and embodies power relations within it. Illogical as a disparaging remark needs to be stopped; we need to move towards understanding and reclaiming logic, emotion, and others as acceptable and reasonable approaches in and of themselves and stop thinking of them as being antithetical. Such an approach also attacks the privilege inherent in proper, schooled, or learned thought by understanding context and self-determination as integral to any life and freeing reason from the academy.

Your argument relies upon the rules you seek to refute.

Ahah, I know intro WMST classes give you a lot of little tools to unpack and use, but playing shake them up and put them in random order on the page doesn't get you any sort of cogent argument.

I guess my confusion is coming from the idea that i see logic and rationality primarily as tools for solving problems

I've never thought of emotion as a tool for solving a problem. it should definitely factor in to HOW you solve problems, since we're all human and we all feel things, and those should be taken into account. but I have trouble imagining approaching a problem, and then wielding emotion to hammer it out

This is a fairly common feature of western thinking, but it's important to realize that the belief that rationality and logic as the only tools for deriving truth are neither universal nor grounded in fact.